Henry lobdell



PATENT rrrcn;

HENRY roBDELL, or TROY, NEW YORK.

CURTAIN-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LOBDELL, a resident of the city of Troy, in the county of Bensselaer and State of New York, have invented 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Ourtam-Sticks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac-.

, companying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters-refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in curtain-sticks; and it consists in providing the sticks with fasteners ranged in a row extending longitudinally of the stick, each fastener having a point or points projecting from the stick, and bent to form an angle with the body of the fastener, which is inserted in the stick, adapted to receive and secure a curtain upon the stick.

My invention is intended as an improvement upon the invention described and claimed in Letters Patent No. 286,027, issued to :me October 2, 1883, for improvements in curtain: rollers.

The object of my invention is to provide a curtain-stick upon which a curtain may be quickly and easily fastened without driving the fasteners and released from the stick without drawing the fasteners therefrom.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a curtain stick or roller provided with my improved fasteners. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken at the broken line a bin Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a crosssection taken at the broken line 0 d in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-section, showing a modified form. Fig. 5 is a planview of my fastener be-. fore it is bent. Fig. 6 is across-section, showing the application of my improved fastener to a spring-roller. Fig. 7 is a crosssection, show view of a double-pointed fastener. Fig. 9 is a G is the fastener by which the curtain P is ing another modified form. Fig. 8"is a plan.

part of Letters Patent No. 292,332, dated January 22, 1884.

Application filed October 23,1sea. (No model.)

fastened to the stick. The stick is rabbeted on one side to form the depression or groove 13. The stick is prepared as follows: Straight pointed fasteners like 0 (shown in Fig. 5) are driven through the stick at suitable intervals in a straight line extending longitudinally of the stick, and the projecting points bent down to about a right angle, to occupy a position tangential to the stick, as shown in Fig. 2. -When it is desired to attach a curtain to the stick, the fasteners are all arranged so that the-pointed ends all point in the same direction, extending across the depression B at right angles to a line drawn lengthwise of the stick. One end 6 5 of the curtain is then pressed against the points, which are caused to pierce the same, as shown in Fig. 9. The fasteners are then given onequarter of a revolution in the stick, which brings them into the position relatively to the stick shown in Figs. 1 and 3 by O, by which the curtain is held securely against the stick, the points of the fasteners lying in the depression B in the stick, which should be of sufficient depth to prevent the projection of the 7 5 points above the general-surface of the stick. The points may be turned all in one direction, or some one way and some the other, as shown by G O 0'. By turning the points in different directions the curtain is prevented from being pulled off the points by any strain longitudinally of the stick. E represents a stop, which projects very slightly above the surface of the stick in the depression B, the object of which is to prevent the point C from turning 8 5 until it is lifted over the stop, and thus facilitate the insertion of the points in the curtain. For example, the point C at one end of the stick is inserted in the curtain, an d the latter drawn taut in front of the next point, which is then 0 inserted, and so on until all the points are inserted. The stop E prevents the point C from turning around and-releasin the curtaimwhile the latter is drawn taut to insert the other points. Only one stop is necessary, and is to 5 be located at one end of the stick.

My improved fasteners maybe applied to a spring roller, as shown in Fig. 6. Springrollers have the hollow S to receive the spring,

and the fastener is forced through the stick at I of the fastener projects upward from the stick, but when turned into line with the roller drops into the depression 13, the same as before do scribed.

Instead of forcing the fasteners through the roller from the outside, it may be shorter and forced through the shell from the hollow within, as shown by the dotted lines.

Instead of providing the fasteners with the head It and driving them through the stick and afterward bending" down the points, the fasteners may he made shorter or without heads, and first bent and then inserted blunt end first in the stick, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

Instead of asinglepointed fastener, one may i he used with two points, and formed by den.-

bling a wire upon itself, as shown in Figs and S. The points are inserted in the curtain while lying together, and then turned around, and one of the points bent over, so as to lie upon the curtain and point in the opposite direction from the other, as shown by the points D in Fig. 1, in which case one fastener alone will hold the curtain from slipping in either direction longitudinally of the stick.

The double-pointed fastener may he made shorter than the single-pointed, as shown at G in Fig. 7, and the curtain may be fixed upon the points before they are bent down, alter which they may be bent down into the depression 13-one in one direction, and one in the other, as shown at Din Fig. 1. In this case eoease' i the depression 13 may have a shoulder on both sides, as shown bythe assistance of the dotted I lines in 7.

By the term curtain-stick I intend to in elude curtain rollers, poles, and slats,

! \Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure 1 by Letters Patent, is

1. A curtain-stick provided with a row of projecting fasteners ranged longitudinally ol:- l said stick, and bent to project tangentially from said stick, substantially as aud tor the purposes set forth,

2. A curtain-stink provided with a row of fasteners ranged longitudinally of said stick, and having; angular projections adapted to I swing from aright angular into a parallel line of direction relatively to the generul line of direction of the stiek, suhstantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

3. A curtain-stick provided with a row of double-pointed fasteners tangedlongitudi nally of said stick, having the points projecting therefrom, and the double points adapted to pierce a curtain together and afterward be separated and bent down upon the curtain, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day 01" October, 1883.

HENRY LOHDELIL.

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